Welcome to the IMDL home page. Whether you are a current, past, or potential
student in the class, (or even an outside observer) we hope that this page will
be
helpful to you. The course syllabus is in Adobe PDF format.

The Intelligent Machines Design Laboratory (IMDL) constitutes a capstone
undergraduate laboratory and a beginning graduate laboratory that provides
students with a realistic engineering experience in design, simulation,
fabrication, assembly, integration, testing, and operations of a relatively
complex, intelligent machine. A lab project, oriented about a small,
microcomputer
controlled, electronically sensualized, autonomous robot that exhibits various
tasking behaviors, requires the integration of various subdisciplines in
electrical and computer engineering: microcomputer interfacing and programming,
analog and digital electronics, computer aided engineering, control, and
communications.

Students outside of electrical engineering are welcome and encouraged to take
the class. Adequate guidance will be given those who need it. Many mechanical
engineers, industrial engineers, agricultural engineers, a law student, two
business majors and a geology major have successfully completed the course.